Item Details
Skip Navigation Links
   ActiveUsers:1671Hits:20894160Skip Navigation Links
Show My Basket
Contact Us
IDSA Web Site
Ask Us
Today's News
HelpExpand Help
Advanced search

In Basket
  Journal Article   Journal Article
 

ID133109
Title ProperGlobal food crisis and the geopolitics of food security
LanguageENG
AuthorSommerville, Melanie ;  Essex, Jamey ;  Billon, Philippe Le
Publication2014.
Summary / Abstract (Note)Growing anxieties over food security have recently brought sharp geopolitical overtones to debates about the agro-food sector. Contending that this 'geopolitical moment' highlights the mutually constitutive nature of geopolitics and political economies of food, we examine how dominant geopolitical framings of food security extend and deepen neoliberal models of agro-food provisioning, and highlight the need for further attention to these dynamics from political geographers. We develop a preliminary research agenda for further work in the field, focusing on the recent spate of global farmland acquisitions, questions of agro-food governance, the securitisation of hunger and obesity, and the environmental impacts of dominant agro-food systems. Throughout, we highlight the value of a counter-geopolitics of food security for re-situating agro-food politics outside hegemonic policies and institutions, and of the alter-geopolitics of food pursued by communities embodying concrete alternative food production and consumption systems.
`In' analytical NoteGeopolitics Vol.19, No.2; May 2014: p.239-265
Journal SourceGeopolitics Vol.19, No.2; May 2014: p.239-265
Key WordsFood Politics ;  Pubic Protest ;  Global Food Crisis ;  National Political Agenda - NPA ;  Transnational Political Agenda - TNPA ;  Global Governance ;  Geopolitical Strategy ;  Political Disorder ;  Economic Disorder ;  Food Security ;  Food Insecurity ;  Geopolitical Framings ;  Production Systems ;  Consumption Systems ;  Hegemonic Policies ;  Counter-Geopolitics ;  Global Farmland Acquisitions - GFA ;  Environmental Impacts ;  Alter-Geopolitics


 
 
Media / Other Links  Full Text